Features/Liberation Fonts 2

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== Summary ==

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Enhanced version of Liberation fonts having more script coverage, better license and improved hinting.

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The Liberation(tm) Fonts is a font family which aims at metric compatibility with Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New. Enhanced version 2.0 of Liberation fonts provides more script coverage, better license and improved hinting.

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* It provides support for Greek Polytonic characters. Bug open for this as a RFE.

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3. Improved hinting.

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* Improved hinting.

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== Scope ==

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1. Upstream release based on croscore fonts.

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* Upstream release based on croscore fonts.

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2. Package liberation-narrow-sans as a different package in Fedora. Since licensing issues still not fixed for Liberation Sans Narrow

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* Package liberation-narrow-sans as a different package in Fedora. Since licensing issues still not fixed for Liberation Sans Narrow

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3. Build latest liberation fonts 2.00.0 for Rawhide

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* Build latest liberation fonts 2.00.0 for Rawhide

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4. Testing and bugfixing

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* Testing and bugfixing

== How To Test ==

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1. Install liberation fonts 2.00.0 version

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* Install liberation fonts 2.00.0 version

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2. See the differences.

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* Observe differences from earlier version.

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3. Check rendering of your test in Libre Office.

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* Check rendering of your test in Libre Office.

== User Experience ==

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1. Improved character coverage.

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* Improved character coverage.

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2. Better hinting effect.

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* Better hinting effect.

== Dependencies ==

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1. Feature owner is leading upstream Liberation fonts project.

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* Feature owner is leading upstream Liberation fonts project.

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* Package review of liberation-narrow-fonts #840878

== Contingency Plan ==

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1. Need to see first testing reports from users after packaging latest version in Fedora rawhide/18.

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* Need to see first testing reports from users after packaging latest version in Fedora rawhide/18.

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2. If users reporting major problems for against improved version. We can roll back to older version of Liberation fonts. 1.07.2

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* If users reporting major problems for against improved version. We can roll back to older version of Liberation fonts. 1.07.2

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The Liberation(tm) Fonts is a font family which aims at metric compatibility with Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New. Enhanced version 2.0 of Liberation fonts provides more script coverage, better license and improved hinting.